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Old 25-12-19, 00:02
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More original markings found. On the passenger door is the W/T. The exciting find was on the rear lower plate. It’s original CMD #. I think it’s CMD 26407. Lastly I found on the right rear fender what I believe to be a postwar Dutch marking. The Netherlands flag in what I think was a black circle.

It’s nice finding these numbers as hopefully as others have said this vehicle can be traced.

Alex, I’ve checked the white plate underneath and it doesn’t look to have had any thing. The lower front plate might have something but it will have to wait since the nose is pretty close to the shop door. Thanks for those pictures. I have not seen those ones before.

David, as for its role in RCASC usecheck out the info sheet below.
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Old 25-12-19, 12:13
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Great to see this Otter in good hands and being restored!

In post #2 it looks like the remains of a registration number CM 46??296 are visible, similar to the number on the Otter on the attached photo (from the book “XII Manitoba Dragoons a tribune” by B. Tascona, showing Otter used during training in the U.K. 1943).

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Old 25-12-19, 15:36
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Lastly I found on the right rear fender what I believe to be a postwar Dutch marking. The Netherlands flag in what I think was a black circle.
Jordan, you might even be able to find an orange lion marking under the red-white-blue dutch flag. The black circle with orange lion was the marking used just after the war (and during the war by the Irene Brigade), later in life Dutch army vehicles received a licence plate and red-white-blue flag in stead of the older style markings.

Attached are two Ward la France wreckers in different time periods. Early post-war with orange lion and later with licence plate and flag marking.
source: https://nimh-beeldbank.defensie.nl/
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Old 25-12-19, 15:38
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By the way....interesting to see that some Otters were given a census number with CM-prefix, while others were given a (C)F prefix!

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Old 25-12-19, 15:41
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Thanks Alex.

My knowledge on the Dutch markings is quite limited.

Yes the difference in the WD numbers. Originally they were considered “cars” so they got the CM numbers. Later contracts they were considered “armoured cars” and got the F numbers. I think they started getting F numbers quite late in construction around October/November of 42.
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Old 25-12-19, 16:06
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Jordan, you might even be able to find an orange lion marking under the red-white-blue dutch flag. The black circle with orange lion was the marking used just after the war (and during the war by the Irene Brigade), later in life Dutch army vehicles received a licence plate and red-white-blue flag in stead of the older style markings.
To add to that, here's an example of an Otter with the early post-war markings, consisting of an orange lion on a black circle on the center of the nose, plus a five digit census number in white on the side of the bonnet:
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An Otter of the Military Police in front of the "Concertgebouw" (Concert hall) during a military parade, Museumplein, Amsterdam, 27 March 1952 (Foto Ben van Meerendonk / AHF, collectie IISG, Amsterdam)
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